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  1. May I suggest we add a few things? on The WHO May Recognize Excessive Video Gaming As Mental Health Disorder (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I mean, while we're at it, could we add clinging excessively to "social" media and constant gawking at your damn phone? I mean, the latter has a good chance of sorting itself out when you do it in halfway decent traffic, but the former does become an issue.

  2. Re:I don't think it's their culture on The Link Between Polygamy and War (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Saudi Arabia is simply something I can't take serious. It's basically a "country" with a family owning it. Even in name. The name of the country basically means "The land of the family Saud". What kind of country is that supposed to be?

    If they didn't have oil, they would have been flushed out of the world ages ago.

  3. Re:Stability on The Link Between Polygamy and War (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a lot of words for "There is still no stable solution for the Three-body problem".

  4. Re:News for nerds? on The Link Between Polygamy and War (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    C'mon, everyone at least tried to have sex with more than one partner.

    Who didn't try to find out whether wanking with the other hand felt like it's done by someone else?

  5. Re:Make love, not war on The Link Between Polygamy and War (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Solution: Mandatory wanking. Twice a day. Under supervision of some dominatrix. With your balls in her... erh...

    'scuse me a moment, I have to take care of something.

  6. Re:Links on The Link Between Polygamy and War (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope. The only thing that's still plentiful and free on the internet (and that you actually might want to have, unlike malware, spam and trolls) is porn.

  7. Re:We imported these idiots to Australia. on The Link Between Polygamy and War (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    tl;dr: I'm #1, so why try harder?

  8. If the browser lets the event that triggers the filling be automated, yes. This is the part that must not be possible.

    Again, it's down to the browser, nothing else.

  9. It should not be. For exactly the reason the article says, a sensible browser will only start autofilling once you start to interact with a field.

  10. My crystal ball tells me we'll hear about a surefire way to block those ad services in no later than 10 postings, 20 tops.

  11. Don't rejoice too early, most likely the outsourcers just found some place where you can get cheaper (and even less competent) code monkeys.

  12. But the Annoying Orange is funny!

  13. Without trolls and sockpuppets, what's left is basically the Donald.

  14. And that's exactly why the US are not a Christian nation.

  15. Re:Sure, when others do it... on Vietnam Deploys 10,000 Cyber Warriors to Fight 'Wrongful Views' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    What makes you think that the "fake" label won't be used that way? "I don't like these news and I have power, so I declare them fake so I can erase them" isn't that outlandish, is it?

  16. Re:No one identified the real problem on The Link Between Polygamy and War (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry. I've already been a Discordian Pope, after that there's little you could offer to make me reconsider.

  17. Re:No one identified the real problem on The Link Between Polygamy and War (economist.com) · · Score: 2

    True. I can wank with my other hand if I so choose without my house suddenly being gone.

  18. Re:Sure, when others do it... on Vietnam Deploys 10,000 Cyber Warriors to Fight 'Wrongful Views' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I do know the difference. Our media increasingly don't. More and more opinion pieces are paraded about as if they were fact while actually being little more than someone speaking his mind.

    Which is good, don't get me wrong, but it should be taken as such. Unfortunately people do accept arguments from authority unchecked. Oh $big_important_person (or even just $big_boobed_celebrity) said it, so it's true.

  19. Re:Sure, when others do it... on Vietnam Deploys 10,000 Cyber Warriors to Fight 'Wrongful Views' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Care to elaborate how it's different?

    I'd love to get more fact checking and research into our news, but the time you spend fact checking and doing background research, some agenda outlet carpet bombs every social and asocial media with their bullshit, drowning the single well researched and sourced article you might eventually produce in the noise.

  20. Re:Extortion on Piracy Notices Can Mess With Your Thermostat, ISP Warns (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't be so sure. This is, after all, "on the internet".

  21. Re:Preference vs. STRONG preference on The Majority of Americans Prefer To Be Greeted With 'Merry Christmas' Over 'Happy Holidays', a Poll Finds · · Score: 1

    I'm a liberal. Classical style. As in "swing your fist as much as you like as long as it doesn't hit me". I'm in no means responsible nor entitled to policy your language or behaviour.

    I can, and I do reserve the right to, respond to whatever viewpoint you will present. And if it's bullshit, I'll tell you that it's bullshit. And even why.

    So yes. The first part makes me a horrible progressive. And the second makes me horribly for progressives. They're essentially the left wing variant of the right wing religious nutjob. Entrenched in their own world view and unable and unwilling to even consider that they might be wrong, no matter what prove you bring to the table. There is simply no sensible discussion possible with either of them. And thus I stopped discussing with them and started ridiculing them.

  22. Sure, when others do it... on Vietnam Deploys 10,000 Cyber Warriors to Fight 'Wrongful Views' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In Vietnam they fight wrongful views, we're fighting fake news, can someone tell me what the difference is?

    Preferably someone from the agreeable reality department.

  23. Re:It actually goes both ways. on The Link Between Polygamy and War (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Only if you're a sexist pig and think that women can't get gunned down just as well as any man!

  24. Re:No one identified the real problem on The Link Between Polygamy and War (economist.com) · · Score: 2

    It's not like other religions are more keen on wanking, which would certainly take care of that particular problem.

  25. Re: Editor, You mixed the links on The Link Between Polygamy and War (economist.com) · · Score: 2

    But being gay is also a nono. They got their bases covered, you can't get out of the game: Get rich or die trying.